Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 16:50:06 +0200 From: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> To: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [patch] halt/reboot/shutdown cleanup Message-ID: <4FBBA79E.4020303@digiware.nl> In-Reply-To: <20120521205326.GA2675@aspire.rulingia.com> References: <20120513220646.GA12826@stack.nl> <CA766F13-E02E-4815-9AEE-984BC14F2CB9@bsdimp.com> <4FB0CF88.5010309@FreeBSD.org> <3D895644-0BA5-44F7-AC8F-07323729C1AA@bsdimp.com> <88BE52F2-E8CC-455D-B7AF-CB1F876D48B7@bsdimp.com> <4FB960CC.4090607@digiware.nl> <20120521205326.GA2675@aspire.rulingia.com>
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On 2012-05-21 22:53, Peter Jeremy wrote: > [My vote on the halt/reboot/shutdown issue is that halt(8) & reboot(8) > should just be wrappers around reboot(2) and shutdown(8) should clean > up and run the rc.d shutdown scripts - but maybe I'm showing my age] > > On 2012-May-20 23:23:24 +0200, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> wrote: >> Although my strongest peave withs this is in the periodical scripts >> which are too talkative for my taste. > > You can control much of that via /etc/periodic.conf - see > /etc/defaults/periodic.conf for details. > >> eg. I haven't used dump in 10 years, but still my reports have dump >> lines in them. > > You probably still have a non-empty /etc/dumpdates. Unfortunately, > you can't separately control the "df -h" and "dump W" output[1] but > an empty /etc/dumpdates will reduce it to one line. > > [1] I think we're getting to the point where 400.status-disks should > be split into 2. dump(8) is becoming increasingly less relevant. > I used these as obvious examples, but there are much more.... But that would be stealing the thread. --WjW
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